THIS IS TROUBLING: Birth Control Pills Double Glaucoma Risk.

RICH BAEHR: Obama’s Poll Panic: The president’s numbers are in free fall with no glimpse of the bottom yet.

THIS IS INTERESTING: The Center for Prosecutor Integrity.

WHY WOMEN ARE abandoning Obama. “Why are women finally beginning to reject Mr. Obama? Because he betrayed their trust. It’s personal. With the truth of Obamacare on the table for all to see, including the higher premiums, the canceled policies, the excluded doctors and hospitals, the original targeted marketing of Obamacare to women has now been exposed as the cynical and manipulative fraud it really was.”

ED MORRISSEY: Why The Bloated U.S. Government Is Too Big To Succeed.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Some Conservative Advice For Chris Christie.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 196.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama’s Image Machine: Monopolistic Propoganda Funded by You. “The problem is that the Obama White House is simultaneously restricting access of independent media while flooding the public with state-run media.”

HOPEY-CHANGEY: Foreign Policy: Inside America’s Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere.

FORMER DEMOCRATIC REP. HAROLD FORD: The Obama Administration Should Consider Shutting ObamaCare Down.

“The fundamental problem now is what happens with Democrats in the House and the Senate who are up for re-election, and how they have to respond and behave around this,” Ford said. “The website problems I thought, a week or two ago, were more isolated than they are. I happen to think it could be a more systemic challenge. And there may need to be a greater honesty — not an honesty, I’m not saying that people aren’t being honest — but a greater acceptance that they may have to step back and shut the whole thing down.”

When Ford said that, host Mika Brzezinski loudly sighed.

There’ll be a lot more sighs before this is over.

ED WHELAN: Don’t Cry For Argentina. “Argentina has made clear that it will defy any adverse judgment that it receives on this matter from American courts. (See this YouTube clip from oral argument in the Second Circuit.) In other words, Argentina would be brazenly seeking to enlist the Supreme Court on its behalf even as it has vowed not to comply with an adverse ruling by the Court.”

WHEN LIBERAL WISCONSIN JOURNALISTS get creepy.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: ObamaCare Debacle Could Kill Big Blue:

Sounding like some kind of Fox News contributor, the left-leaning Edsall goes on to point out that the Obamacare dream ignores some basic realities about the way the world and the government work. Democrats pitched the Affordable Care Act as a law that would let the haves keep their doctors and their plans while giving more care to the have-nots, meanwhile offering Amazon levels of service to all comers through a magical website. Now that the quest for that kind of system is looking more like a misguided unicorn hunt, Edsall suddenly, horribly, begins to see just how foolish and utopian the whole project was . . . But as critical as these words seem, Edsall remains a loyal son of the left even as he mourns what he fears may be the greatest liberal failure since the Vietnam War. He blames the Obamacare debacle on the selfishness of middle class American whites— nasty, unenlightened racists that they are—who want to hog all the health care for themselves rather than share equitably with people of color. . . .

Here Edsall is simultaneously overestimating the policy sophistication of the white middle class and underestimating its morality. While it is true that, as Edsall points out, Obamacare is an aggressively redistributionist program that intends to shift hundreds of billions of dollars away from the middle class to the poor, I don’t think many voters have done the math on this. They are not reacting to the $455 billion in Medicare cuts that help to feed the Obamacare beast because not many people really understand how the new system is supposed to work. And at the same time, unlikely as it may sound to the finely tuned consciences of the New York Times editorial page, there are scores of millions of middle class white Americans who don’t hate minorities and would actually like to see things go better for them.

Edsall is not the only one who doubts the goodwill of many middle class whites. Over at the proudly port-listing Plumline blog at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent hammers the theme that America hates Obamacare because America hates poor blacks.

It’s a dumb and desperate argument, but what else have they got? And it flatters the oikophobia of their core readership, such as it remains. Quoth Mead:

Middle America isn’t frothing over Obamacare because we are a nation of racist policy wonks who did the math and hate the blacks. The public is angry first (as Edsall mostly seems to understand) because of the supremely infuriating blend of incompetent arrogance our Second Lincoln has brought to the greatest domestic challenge of his presidency. They are angry because an expensive and cumbersome new piece of social engineering looks badly engineered. But in the second place, they are angry because the liberal wing of the Democratic Party and its journalistic spear carriers in the MSM systematically misrepresented the nature of the new system.

They lied about the plan then, they’re lying about the racism now. That’s who they are, that’s what they do.

ISN’T THIS BASICALLY AN ADMISSION THAT THE DEMOCRATS EXPECT TO LOSE THE SENATE? The Senate is at Defcon-1 and about to change forever. So they at least want to get their court-packing scheme through first.

END-STAGE SOCIALISM: Ghost of Chavez Can’t Stop Hyperinflation. I’ll note that despite the talk of idealistic motives, Chavez died a billionaire. One can bet that his family has moved as many assets out of the bolivar as possible, too.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Some High Schoolers Built a Satellite and NASA Just Sent It to Space.

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Also, Black Friday Deals on Boys’ Toys.

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INSTAVISION: I talk with Avik Roy about his new book, How Medicaid Fails The Poor.

“THIS CONVERSATION NEVER HAPPENED:” The latest O’Keefe video.

TRAIN WRECK UPDATE: Obamacare Bailout Sought as Effort Planned to Bypass Site. It’s bailouts all the way down. Also, the bypass is illegal.

UPDATE: I don’t think the Postal Service is fully supportive of the program.

Heh.

RACE-BAITING: Charlie Rangel says ‘there’s a Confederate general’ in every Republican living room.

TIME COVER NOT SO GOOD FOR OBAMA.

BROOKINGS: New Evidence Raises Doubts on Obama’s Preschool for All. A waste of money, primarily aimed at increasing the number of Democratic-voting unionized teachers.

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: Washington Post: IRS e-mails show Cincinnati official fuming over Lois Lerner comments. “Thomas’s e-mail suggests high-ranking officials knew about the problems long before Lerner apologized for the activities and well in advance of a May 2013 inspector general’s report that detailed them.”